GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 321192
usb stick data loss
Last modified: 2005-11-13 13:21:12 UTC
When A usb stick is unmounted via left clicking unmount, the icon disappears immediately instead of waiting until all buffered data has been written. This gives the perception that the stick can be removed even though some data is still being written. For example if a large 400+ MB file is placed on a usb stick and then unmount immediately after nautilus reports that the copy is complete the icon will disappear but data remains in the buffer that hasn't been written yet. A sync should be preformed before the icon disappears. Other information:
Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 313639 ***